"Valle Ariccia, Ponte Alto and Ponte Antico. Appian Way The Appian Way (Latin and Italian: ""Via Appia"") is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy. Its importance is indicated by its common name, recorded by Statius: The road is named after Appius Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who began and completed the first section as a military road to the south in 312 BC during the Samnite Wars. The Appian Way was used as a main route for military supplies since its construction for that"
"Appian Way through Italy in 312BC. Along such roads marched soldiers, merchants, slaves and citizens to all corners of a flourishing mercantile empire. Roman engineering was so formidable that roads, bridges and aqueducts survive in impressive scale and quantity to the present day. According to the historian Geoffrey Blainey, the population of the Imperial capital was probably the first in the world to approach one million people. It eventually consisted of monumental public buildings, such as the Colosseum (dedicated to sport), the bathhouses (dedicated to leisure) and the Roman Forum dedicated to civic affairs. Slavery helped power the economy, but"
"Appian Way Regional Park The Appian Way Regional Park is a protected area of around 3400 hectares, established by the Italian region of Latium. It falls primarily within the territory of Rome but parts also extend into the neighbouring towns of Ciampino and Marino. The park aims to be a ""green wedge"" between the centre of Rome and the Alban Hills to the southeast. It contains a majority of the relics of Ancient Rome to be found outside the city centre. It consists of the Appian Way, from the centre of Rome to the 10th Mile, including the Villa of"
"Monopoli is the city in Apulia that has the longest stretch of the ""Via Traiana"". This is one of the most important Roman roads of the Empire. In 2012 the city of Monopoli created an archeological park around the remains of this ancient road. The difference between this new road and the Appian Way was the shorter distance between Benevento and Brindisi. The Appian Way started in Rome, reaching Benevento and continuing on to Taranto, and from there the road continued to Brindisi, from which port people could take ship for Greece, the Orient and the Balkans. The ""Via Traiana"","
"on, many religious sites and other points of interest, including: Appian Way Regional Park The Appian Way Regional Park is a protected area of around 3400 hectares, established by the Italian region of Latium. It falls primarily within the territory of Rome but parts also extend into the neighbouring towns of Ciampino and Marino. The park aims to be a ""green wedge"" between the centre of Rome and the Alban Hills to the southeast. It contains a majority of the relics of Ancient Rome to be found outside the city centre. It consists of the Appian Way, from the centre"
"After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the road fell out of use; Pope Pius VI ordered its restoration. A new Appian Way was built in parallel with the old one in 1784 as far as the Alban Hills region. The new road is the ""Via Appia Nuova"" (""New Appian Way"") as opposed to the old section, now known as ""Via Appia Antica"". The old Appian Way close to Rome is now a free tourist attraction. It was extensively restored for Rome's Millennium and Great Jubilee celebrations. The first are still heavily used by cars, buses and coaches but"
"Forum Appii The Forum Appii (or Appii Forum) is an ancient post station on the Via Appia, 43 miles (69 km) southeast of Rome, founded, no doubt, by the original constructor of the road. Horace mentions it as the usual halt at the end of the first day's journey from Rome, and describes it as full of boatmen and cheating innkeepers. Boatmen were found there because it was the starting-point of a canal which ran parallel to the road through the Pontine Marshes, and was used instead of it at the time of Strabo and Horace (see Appian way). The"
"go from Rome by way of the ""Via Aurelia"" across the Alps on the Via Julia Augusta to either northern France or ""Gades"" (modern Cadiz, Spain). The modern ""Strada Statale 1"" occupies the same route, and colloquially is still referred to as, ""La Via Aurelia"". There are the remains of several Roman bridges along the road, including the ""Cloaca di Porta San Clementino"", ""Ponte del Diavolo"", ""Primo Ponte"", and the ""Secondo Ponte"" (the last three in Sta Marinella). Via Aurelia The Via Aurelia (Latin for ""Aurelian Way"") is Roman road in Italy constructed in approximately 241 BC. The project was"
"so that it is now possible to follow the Appia on foot for about from its beginning near the Baths of Caracalla. Many parts of the original road beyond Rome's environs have been preserved, and some are now used by cars (for example, in the area of Velletri). The road inspires the last movement of Ottorino Respighi's ""Pini di Roma"". To this day the Via Appia contains the longest stretch of straight road in Europe, totaling . There are the remains of several Roman bridges along the road, including the Ponte di Tre Ponti, Ponte di Vigna Capoccio, Viadotta di"
"and Ventotene. Formia Formia is a city and ""comune"" in the province of Latina, on the Mediterranean coast of Lazio (Italy). It is located halfway between Rome and Naples, and lies on the Roman-era Appian Way. It has a population of 38,095. Formia was founded in ancient times by the Laconi and named in Greek, Ὁρμίαι (""hormiai"", meaning ""landing place"") and later in early Latin, ""Ormiae"". In the Roman Republic era it was called ""Formiae"" (derived from ""Hormia"" or ""Ormiai"", for its excellent landing). It was a renowned resort during the imperial era. Cicero was assassinated on the Appian Way"
"Via Aemilia The Via Aemilia () was a trunk Roman road in the north Italian plain, running from ""Ariminum"" (Rimini), on the Adriatic coast, to ""Placentia"" (Piacenza) on the river ""Padus"" (Po). It was completed in 187 BC. The ""Via Aemilia"" connected at Rimini with the Via Flaminia to Rome, which had been completed 33 years earlier. The land today known as northern Italy (""Italia settentrionale"") was known to the ancient Romans during the republican period (to 44 BC) as Gallia Cisalpina (literally: Gaul on the near – i.e. southern – side of the Alps). This is because it was"
"been found at various points in central Albano Laziale. Several suburban villas of Roman nobiles have been found in the general area, including the villas of Publius Clodius Pulcher (near Ercolano in Castel Gandolfo), and perhaps of Pompey the Great (in the Villa Doria) and an anonymous villa discovered near the railway station. The great abundance of villas and farms in the area must result from the ease of direct communication with Rome thanks to the Appian Way, built in 312 BC by the Censor Appius Claudius Caecus to connect the city of Rome with Capua, in Campania. In 293"
"The ruined city of Appia, one of the earliest Aleran settlements, most likely refers to the Appian Way, also known as Via Appia, which is one of the earliest and most strategic roads in Ancient Rome. It is in this city that Tavi and Maestro Magnus perform their research into ""Romanic"" technology at the beginning of ""Cursor's Fury"". When questioned about the term ""Romanic"" by Max, Tavi responds, ""The people were called Romans...you call something Romanic when it was built by Romans."" Other geographic features named for places in Rome include the River Gaul (from the region approximating present day"
"Via Appia Nuova was reconstructed in the late 18th century. Forum Appii The Forum Appii (or Appii Forum) is an ancient post station on the Via Appia, 43 miles (69 km) southeast of Rome, founded, no doubt, by the original constructor of the road. Horace mentions it as the usual halt at the end of the first day's journey from Rome, and describes it as full of boatmen and cheating innkeepers. Boatmen were found there because it was the starting-point of a canal which ran parallel to the road through the Pontine Marshes, and was used instead of it at"
"Formia Formia is a city and ""comune"" in the province of Latina, on the Mediterranean coast of Lazio (Italy). It is located halfway between Rome and Naples, and lies on the Roman-era Appian Way. It has a population of 38,095. Formia was founded in ancient times by the Laconi and named in Greek, Ὁρμίαι (""hormiai"", meaning ""landing place"") and later in early Latin, ""Ormiae"". In the Roman Republic era it was called ""Formiae"" (derived from ""Hormia"" or ""Ormiai"", for its excellent landing). It was a renowned resort during the imperial era. Cicero was assassinated on the Appian Way outside the"
"included the Appian Way with a finish at the Arch of Constantine. Rome was scheduled to host the 1908 Summer Olympics, but had to withdraw due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906. The 1908 Games were given to London as a result following a meeting at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens. Rome hosted the ISSF World Shooting Championships (then UIT) five times from 1897 to the start of World War II, doing so in 1902, 1911, 1927, 1930, and 1935. The biggest event for Italy was hosting the 1934 FIFA World Cup in which the host nation"
"Via Flaminia The Via Flaminia was an ancient Roman road leading from Rome over the Apennine Mountains to ""Ariminum"" (Rimini) on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, and due to the ruggedness of the mountains was the major option the Romans had for travel between Etruria, Latium, Campania, and the Po Valley. Today the same route, still called by the same name for much of its distance, is paralleled or overlaid by Strada Statale (SS) 3, also called Strada Regionale (SR) 3 in Lazio and Umbria, and Strada Provinciale (SP) 3 in Marche. It leaves Rome, goes up the Val"
"Via Popilia The Via Popilia is the name of two different ancient Roman roads begun in the consulship of Publius Popilius Laenas. The first road was an extension of the Via Flaminia from Ariminum around the north of the Adriatic through the region that later became Venice. The name of this road continues as a street name in modern Rimini, which, as Ariminum, was the junction point between the Via Flaminia from Rome, the Via Aemilia along the edge of the Po valley, and the northern Via Popilia. It ran along the shore strip (""Lido"") from Ariminum to Ravenna (),"
"at least one Roman bridge along the road, the Ponte sul Savuto. <br> Via Popilia The Via Popilia is the name of two different ancient Roman roads begun in the consulship of Publius Popilius Laenas. The first road was an extension of the Via Flaminia from Ariminum around the north of the Adriatic through the region that later became Venice. The name of this road continues as a street name in modern Rimini, which, as Ariminum, was the junction point between the Via Flaminia from Rome, the Via Aemilia along the edge of the Po valley, and the northern Via"
"founded in 183 BC). The ""Via Aemilia"" was completed by, and named after, the Roman consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in 187 BC. It ran, largely in a straight line, 176 Roman miles (260 km) NW from Rimini to its termination at Piacenza, passing through the cities of Forlì, Faenza, Bologna, Modena, Reggio and Parma. The road ran along the southern edge of the pancake-flat Pianura Padana within sight of the northern foothills of Italy's Apennine mountains, crossing numerous tributary rivers of the Po, notably the Rubicone near Rimini- although it is not certain that this river is the same as"
"of Luigi Canina. After Italian unification further efforts were made to develop an archaeological walk from the city centre to Rome's southeast, but this only reached as far as the Baths of Caracalla. In 1931, a new plan envisaged the Appian Way to become a great park but this idea was threatened after the Second World War with the construction of illegal villas and sports clubs close to the monuments and other housing that encroached on the edges of the zone. Moreover, the new ring road for Rome, the Grande Raccordo Anulare, cut in two the Appian Way at the"
"BC the road was paved in ""saxum quadratum"" up to Bovillae. Later it was extended to Benevento and then to the Greek port of Brindisi. In the eighteenth century, Giovanni Antonio Ricci suggested the existence of a municipium which he called ""Alba Media"" on the site of Albano., but this theory conflated the evidence from another localities of the same name: Alba Pompeia (modern Alba) and Alba Fucens. Ricci was thoroughly confuted in the following centuries, and it is now established that until the time of Domitian, the stretch of the Appian Way between Bovillae and Aricia (modern Frattocchie in"
"Porta Capena The Porta Capena was a gate in the Servian Wall near the Caelian Hill, in Rome, Italy according to Roman tradition the sacred grove where Numa Pompilius and the nymph Egeria would meet. It was one of the main entries to the city of Rome, since it opened on the Appian Way. The origin of the name is unknown, although it may refer to the fact that the road leads to Capua, an important city in Campania, south of Rome. A well at the Porta Capena provided holy water for the yearly ceremony of Mercuralia. According to 1st"
"""a hospice in the Alps"". Ancelet was a scholar resident at the Villa Medici between 1852 and 1855. In 1853 he drew a ""Restoration of the decor of the porch of Macellum in Pompeii"", making great efforts to accurately reproduce both the form and the colors of this unusual interior decoration. He drew reconstructions of the Appian Way, a military road built in 312 BC between Rome and Capua, drawing on the work of the archaeologist Luigi Canina and other sources. Since few remains of the buildings have been preserved, he was forced to draw on his imagination in depicting"
"There are the remains of several Roman bridges along the road, including the Ponte d’Augusto, Ponte di Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna, Ponte San Vito, Ponte sul Reno and Ponte sul Rubicone. Via Aemilia The Via Aemilia () was a trunk Roman road in the north Italian plain, running from ""Ariminum"" (Rimini), on the Adriatic coast, to ""Placentia"" (Piacenza) on the river ""Padus"" (Po). It was completed in 187 BC. The ""Via Aemilia"" connected at Rimini with the Via Flaminia to Rome, which had been completed 33 years earlier. The land today known as northern Italy (""Italia settentrionale"") was known to the"
"and a temple. Here a colossal statue of Tiberius (now in the Vatican Museum) was found in the late 18th century. <BR> Priverno Priverno is a town, ""comune"" and former Latin Catholic bishopric in the province of Latina, Lazio, central Italy. It was called ""Piperno"" until 1927. It has a station of the Rome-Naples railway mainline. Nearby is the Monti Lepini chain. It was the birthplace of the canonist Reginald of Piperno. ""Privernum"" is described by Livy as a flourishing Volscian site, which was conquered and destroyed by the Romans in the late 4th century BC. The Appian Way passed"
"which followed an older route, began in Benevento and crossing the flat tableland up to Canosa continued on to Ruvo, where a fork in the road led in two different directions. The inland road went to Modugno, Ceglie del Campo, Capurso, Rutigliano and Conversano, while the coastal road went to Bari, Polignano, and Monopoli. These two roads joined again at Egnazia, from where the road continued to Brindisi. This road which Emperor Trajan had constructed became the route of choice to reach Brindisi because it was shorter than the Appian Way. It was travelled by military troops, merchants, slaves, pilgrims"
"walls, including pipes from the baths that are built into some of the windows. An internal exhibition contains photographs of the Appian Way in the first half of the 20th Century. Capo di Bove Capo di Bove is an archeological site on the Appian Way on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. It contains the thermal baths of a vast property owned in the 2nd century AD by Herodes Atticus and his wife Annia Regilla. Formerly privately owned, the property at No. 222 on the Appian Way was acquired by the Italian Government in 2002. The area of the baths was"
"to take water from the Anio valley, hence its name. Its source is believed to be between Vicovaro and Mandela, upstream of the gorge at S. Cosimato. Like the Aqua Appia, its route was mainly underground. Improvements later added bridges to take short cuts avoiding the paths along the sides of valleys by many kilometres (miles). It descended from its source along the valley to Tivoli where it left the Anio towards the Alban Hills to near Gallicano, below Palestrina. It crossed under the Via Latina near the 7th milestone and at the 4th milestone turned northwest to enter Rome."
"Tre Taverne Three Taverns (; , ""Treis Tabernai"") was a place on the ancient Appian Way, about 50 km from Rome, designed for the reception of travellers, as the name indicates. Tres Tabernae originated as a post station on the Appian Way, around the 3rd century BC. Here, the Christian saint Paul of Tarsus, on his way to Rome, was reportedly met by a band of Roman Christians (""Acts"" 28:15). The ""Tres Tabernae was the first ""mansio"" or ""mutatio"", that is, halting-place for relays, from Rome, or the last on the way to the city. At this point three roads"
"Roman Catholic Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano The Diocese of Albano () is a suburbicarian see of the Roman Catholic Church in a diocese in Italy, comprising seven towns in the Province of Rome. Albano Laziale is situated some 15 kilometers from Rome, on the Appian Way. Under current arrangements it has both a titular bishop and a diocesan bishop. In the very year of his consulate, Acilius Glabrio was compelled by Domitian to fight, unarmed, in the amphitheatre at Albano, a Numidian bear, according to Juvenal: an enormous lion, according to Dio Cassius. This same Acilius Glabrio is later included"
"quarter. Until the mid-19th century it was divided in two parts: Casanova and Coccagna. The architect Luigi Vanvitelli is buried in the church of San Francesco di Paola. Casagiove Casagiove is a ""comune"" (municipality) in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania, located about west of Caserta. It was built in an area previously colonized by the ancient Greeks. In fact its name means ""Jupiter's house"", due to its ancient temple dedicated to this divinity. The Appian Way, the Roman road which linked Rome to southern Italy, passed by here. On Casagiove's hill Hannibal, before his failed attempt"
"same style and technique. Via Latina The Via Latina (Latin for ""Latin Road"") was a Roman road of Italy, running southeast from Rome for about 200 kilometers. It led from the Porta Latina in the Aurelian walls of Rome to the pass of Mount Algidus; it was important in the early military history of Rome. It must have preceded the Via Appia as a route to Campania, in as much as the Latin colony at Cales was founded in 334 BC and must have been accessible from Rome by road, whereas the Via Appia was made only twenty-two years later."